Using Sheet Music to Bring History to Life
Have you used sheet music with your classes? It provides a different angle to study events in history.
Archive for 2022 (93 posts)
Submit Your Students’ Research for Inclusion in our New Learning Center
Your students could help develop quests for our new learning lab.
Connecting the Dots with Baseball and Library Online Resources
See how browsing through one collection lead to a variety of different primary sources.
What’s new online at the Library of Congress – Winter 2021/22
Wonder what has been added to the Library of Congress resources available on the website? This blog post from The Signal provides a a list for readers to explore.
Datasets as Primary Sources: An Archaeological Dig into Our Collective Brains, Part 1
How can teachers make use of data sets in the classroom and what new tools may be needed to help them?
The Pemberton Mill Collapse and Changes in Engineering Design
Study the Pemberton Mill building collapse to see how engineering design mistakes led to disaster.
Formation Photographs
What is a living photograph and how can students use them to study design, mathematics and propaganda?
African American History: Teacher Resources and Primary Sources
Explore the resources available to support classroom activities on African American history.
Using Baseball Cartoons to Introduce Concepts Related to Convergent Evolution
Looking for a way to help students understand evolution and how scientists follow fossil records? Use a couple of unique drawings to support student learning.
Barbara Pope: Newspaper Accounts of a Civil Rights Pioneer
Learn about Barbara Pope and her fight to insure that African American passengers on interstate trains did not have to move to Jim Crow cars.